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Council officers explained that for action to be taken against drivers for doing that they must be seen doing it. Cllr Innes is encouraging residents to let the council know if there are any areas in the city where pavement parking is a real problem.

She added: “If we are aware of particular areas where there are particular problems we can send parking officers there.

“We don’t have enough parking enforcement officers to have them on every street corner every day.”

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Another suggestion to resolve the problem was a ‘speed awareness’ style course, which Cllr Innes said offenders would front the cost for.

The idea was proposed by Cllr Jim O’Boyle, who said: “Where there are repeat offenders who don’t seem to care, we have a duty as a local authority to make sure we are doing all we can do.

“I actually think that in the same way when people are caught speeding they have speed awareness courses, if you did a similar thing and got them in here and not just give them a b********* quite frankly but give them a lesson in the dangers.”